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Best answer i can give is that if a game session ended with no dice ever being rolled, I wouldn't consider it a failure, but if a game session had zero story to it and was just rolling dice I would. It's the only metric I can think of to address such an absolutist question honestly.

Exactly this. Look, the best way to used settings for me is to fill genre slots. Don't care for Ravenloft as a setting, but want tools for Horror? Van Richten has some things for you. Have an elaborate social setting but want some simple rules for framework? Take a look into Stryxhaven. Epic DnD...

I'm pretty sure there is zero real chance of it happening. It's a proper example of how licensed properties have a harsh legacy. My wife and I love the show and I just wish I had a real copy of the rules.

Now if they can somehow reprint the Leverage RPG so I can get a copy for less than a kidney...

So I have two seperate takes on this: One one hand, GMs need to trust that players won't cheat. If you do catch a player cheating, you should talk with them. I dont think it is a "one and done" situation. Also, cheating for an advantage over a NPC threat is less egregious than cheating over a...

https://tabletopaudio.com/ Love this site.

This proves my point however. If they had said, "We want to do Mesoamerica, so lets to Maztica" and had, rightly, changed elements of it that just won't fly with contemporary audiences, "fans" would have complained about the changes. If the choice is between making some sort of change to make...

Agreed. One of the basic building blocks for creating conflict is placing barriers in front of the PCs that they seek to overcome.

The issue of language as it relates to larger issues of cultural sensitivity surrounding the hobby is a thorny one to say the least. A simulationist model is fraught in it's own ways both in terms of game complexity and usefulness. What do you want languages to accomplish? From a narrative...

It kinda comes across that new Mesoamerican inspired adventures must use Maztica as their locale under this logic, which is on it's face reductive. We don't require that there be only one Germanic pastiche in all of DnD for example. Why should a new writer have to write within an existing...

~on reading the One DnD Doc for character origins~ Someone pick up that phone. Because I called it.

Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halfling, Gnome, Dragonborn, Orcs Then Lineages: Aasimar, Tiefling, Genasi. All can be applied to the races above. Then Race Specific Lineages: The preexisting subraces for the above races. Half Elf and Half Orc are also lineages now for humans, but rename them to...

I don't know any inside info, but it feels at least that Chaosium came out better on the other side of their own Kickstarter issues. It wasn't their first big crisis, as the card game boom/bust with Mythos also almost sunk them as I understand it.

To clarify my feelings: This is a good thing.

What people should steel themselves for is a basic likelihood. DnD's base rules are not going to get any more complex than they are now. If anything, expect even more streamlining.

On the day of release, just like every other rules update.

Abandoning the existing schools of magic and coming up with say six clear schools.

The more I read of these rules, the more it just reads as someone's weird kinks.

As someone who has the mental trauma of reading FATAL, it's telling how much the aching need to gamify everything echoes that pile.

Players are going to always be primarily concerned with lore that affects their character. The DM has to juggle ALL lore.